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Microsoft to Acquire Yammer — Microsoft extends cloud services with best-in-class enterprise social networking. — Microsoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks, for $1.2 billion in cash.

Microsoft buys Yammer for $1.2 billion — Summary: Microsoft is paying $1.2 billion for Yammer and is folding the enterprise social networking vendor into its Office division. — The rumors were right. Microsoft announced on June 25 it has bought enterprise social networking vendor Yammer for $1.2 billion.

New iPhone prototypes have NFC chips and antenna — We've previously been able to pull data from PreEVT iPhone 5,1 and iPhone 5,2 prototypes codenamed N41AP (5,1) and N42AP (5,2), which leads us to believe that the new iPhone will have a bigger 1136×640 display.

Apple Quietly Pulls Claims of Virus Immunity — In the wake of the Flashback botnet which targeted Mac computers, Apple has removed a statement from its messages on its website that Mac operating system X (OS X) isn't susceptible to viruses. — Apple removed the previous statement …

With Tablet, Microsoft Takes Aim at Hardware Missteps — SEATTLE — Around the time the iPad came out more than two years ago, Microsoft executives got an eye-opening jolt about how far Apple would go to gain an edge for its products. — Microsoft learned through industry sources that Apple …

Facebook Names Sheryl Sandberg to Its Board of Directors — Facebook announced today that Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook, has joined the company's board of directors. — Sandberg oversees Facebook's business operations including sales, marketing, business development …

Pinterest to launch on Android at Google IO? — I've just been looking around the Google IO app — released earlier this week. I was checking out the list of Android related exhibitors who will be at Google IO and found an entry for Pinterest. As you can see from the screenshot I took …

Microsoft: We Won't Build Own Windows Phones — Microsoft exec categorically denies reports that the company plans to bring its Surface tablet strategy to the smartphone market. — A Microsoft executive said the company has no plans to manufacture its own company-branded smartphones …

165TB of New Imagery Added to Bing Maps — Today we're thrilled to announce the publication of our largest satellite release to date. In fact, this release is larger than all of our past Aerial releases combined! — The latest Aerial release includes new Satellite imagery as well as Global Ortho photography.

Simplifying How We Work — Simple. — Everywhere, people aspire to simplicity. In their lives, at work, and at every interaction. At PayPal, we want to make the lives of our customers at lot better by reducing the distance between what they want, and what they get.

Google introduces new I/O live blogging tool — Just days ahead of the yearly Google I/O event, Google has introduced a rather interesting live blogging tool that taps into Google+ page posts and pulls from the I/O live video feed. — This tool, which you can see below, is currently not event agnostic.

Stuxnet Will Come Back to Haunt Us — THE decision by the United States and Israel to develop and then deploy the Stuxnet computer worm against an Iranian nuclear facility late in George W. Bush's presidency marked a significant and dangerous turning point in the gradual militarization of the Internet.